Austin tagging

I heard on KUT that the Austin police department fired the guy in charge of controlling the graffiti and tagging in town. I had noticed there was more around and thought maybe Austin had hit that tipping scale moment and was truly becoming urban. I thought maybe many in town were already celebrating Austin reaching a poignant moment in growth, since the town has this goal of becoming a big city with density, ugly buildings and everything. All along though it was one man, or his small dept, keeping all the tagging and graffiti under control, cities need more than one man.

Personally, I think the guy who was fired is going around and marking up the town. It just isn't that good. Nothing like Style Wars. Austin can't call itself a city or be taken as seriously urban until it creates a dozen decent taggers. So far it has one that I have seen.